Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

This is a movie that is based upon a number of assumptions. For instance, it assumes that if you're watching this flick, you already know a compendium's worth of science fiction conventions, and thus need few things explained to you. Example: apparently, the viewer is just supposed to accept, without question, the idea that enforcing the law throughout the human (and even non-human) footprint of the galaxy should be tasked to two relative children. Also, it is to be assumed that just because said children are both pretty, that they should be humping (or, if you insist, "in love"). The end product of all this assuming is a film that is pretty good to watch--certainly, it's a visual feast, with plenty of imaginative settings and design elements--with no one in the cast particularly embarrassing themselves, even if none of them particularly stand out, either. I'm probably being grouchy by limiting the rating to a MEOW; this is a more enjoyable moveie than that probably implies. It's just that it definitely seems like it could have been better, if the whole thing had been more thoroughly realized.